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Re:Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering by evilneanderthal on Monday November 17, 2008 @05:25PM (#367441)
Yes, and engineers learn from those mistakes, rather than repeating them every 10 years.
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Re:Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering by run4yourlives on Monday November 17, 2008 @05:35PM (#367452)
You would think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_disasters

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Re:Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering by nazgulnarsil on Monday November 17, 2008 @11:34PM (#367841)
and how many of those were due to circumstance beyond the engineers control?
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Re:Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering by evilneanderthal on Monday November 17, 2008 @11:42PM (#367848)
my thoughts exactly.

i'm looking through... boat collision, boat collision, construction failure, no inspection, fire, bombs, etc. etc.

i see tacoma narrows in 1940: "Since that time all new bridges have been modeled in wind tunnels."

edit: here, have some engineering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_bridge

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